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December 17, 2013

Episode 145: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

Special Guests: John Baxter, Jean-Claude Carrière

We round out 2013 with coverage of our favorite films. This week, Rob picks The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, the surrealist masterpiece by director Luis Buñuel where a group of upper crust couples can't seem to ever finish a dinner party.

Links:
Buy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie on DVD
Rent or buy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie from Amazon Instant Video
Buy The Exterminating Angel on DVD
Buy Luis Buñuel's My Last Sigh
Buy John Baxter's Buñuel
Visit the official John Baxter's website
Buy Books by Jean-Claude Carrière
Visit the website for Jean-Claude Carrière's recent art show
Visit the website for Jean-Claude Carrière's recent art book
See various posters for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Visit Rob's tattoo artist

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Drink:
“The day before your guests arrive, put all the ingredients — glasses, gin, and shaker — in the refrigerator. Use a thermometer to make sure the ice is about twenty degrees below zero (centigrade). Don't take anything out until your friends arrive; then pour a few drops of Noilly Prat and half a demitasse spoon of Angostura bitters over the ice. Shake it, then pour it out, keeping only the ice, which retains a faint taste of both. Then pour straight gin over the ice, shake it again, and serve.

The making of a dry martini should resemble the Immaculate Conception, for, as Saint Thomas Aquinas once noted, the generative power of the Holy Ghost pierced the Virgin's hymen "like a ray of sunlight through a window — leaving it unbroken." (from “My Last Sigh”) Read more at Dangerous Minds

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